storing and manipulating columns of data

Hi,

Being used to deal with Octave / Matlab, I'm a bit confused by Ruby structures (arrays, hashes, etc). I have this data file "data.dat" with 3 columns:


1.240000 9.990000e-01 1.290000e-06
1.550000 1.000000e+00 2.920000e-06
2.066000 1.002000e+00 8.360000e-06
2.480000 1.001000e+00 1.520000e-05
2.755000 1.001000e+00 2.210000e-05
3.099000 1.003000e+00 3.570000e-05
3.444000 1.003000e+00 3.240000e-05
3.542000 1.003000e+00 1.720000e-05
4.133000 1.001000e+00 1.430000e-05
4.959000 1.001000e+00 2.400000e-05
6.199000 1.001000e+00 4.720000e-05
8.265000 9.990000e-01 1.210000e-04

I would like to think of the columns as arrays "a", "b", "c", execute a loop along their indices, pick the values i want, and do something with them. What would be a sensible data structure for this?
I can read this datafile line by line using IO:readlines("data.dat"), but I cannot find a way to refer to one column in the array of strings generated.


Best regards,

baptiste


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